Cut Cable Puts Calls On Hold

May 9, 1986|By Lynne Bumpus-Hooper of The Sentinel Staff

TITUSVILLE — Southern Bell customers in north Brevard had limited telephone service for about three hours Thursday after a construction company severed a telephone cable. It was the fourth such accident in six months.

Titusville residents could call other Titusville numbers but could not reach Cocoa or make long-distance calls.

911 emergency services were not affected, said Southern Bell spokesman Don Moore. Emergency calls originating within Titusville are handled by the Titusville Police Department. County residents had access to 911 in Cocoa through a microwave link.

The accident occurred near the Sears Town Mall on U.S. Highway 1 where workers were putting up a concrete power pole. Moore said the company, which he could not identify, would be billed to replace the damaged section.

Moore said the increase in service disruptions is a result of growth. ''There is so much construction and development going on now and so many more people are digging into the ground for different reasons that these occurrences have increased,'' he said.